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| author | Mx Kookie <kookie@spacekookie.de> | 2020-10-31 20:20:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Mx Kookie <kookie@spacekookie.de> | 2020-10-31 20:20:10 +0100 |
| commit | 0e4581c2029b5b5322ec2ef70bec31a7505e2c77 (patch) | |
| tree | ba0a7ed273e026438d95e909e81cab29de8e554b /README.md | |
| parent | 8ae138435059cedaaf5c6d1aab622f3620379913 (diff) | |
README: adding note about handling large git repositories
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 91f450947f2a..9fd050bda2f0 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -21,6 +21,15 @@ Following is an overview of components in this repository. | licenses | Set of license texts in use by projects in this repository | +## Working with a large repo + +This repository is quite massive, because it contains multiple +subtrees with large histories. If you experience performance +problems, try setting `feature.manyFiles` in your git configuration. +Additionally, when using `git log`, make sure to use `--first-parent` +to get the history of kookienomicon, to avoid seeing subtree histories +instead of the merge commits that you might be more interested in. + ## License |